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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.

Alan Arkin

I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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Even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.
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I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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